My best little helper

For a long time C2 has been really into "helping" mom out around the house and yard.  We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday and now her helping has moved to a new level of cuteness.  Yesterday before she helped me sweep up a big mess of cereal that C3 had poured out she started singing the happy working song and saying "Ah Ah Ah" to call to her imaginary animal friends so they could help out too.

The Discovery Kids Effect

So C1 got a rocking gift from his grandma last week:  a huge stack of Discovery Kids magazines that they were cleaning out of a 6th grade classroom!  He has been in heaven.  It is funny to hear the things that he takes away from exploring these magazines.  Yesterday on the way to school we were listening to the song "The Farmer in the Dell" and at the end he says "The cheese could take matter and then matter could take an atom!" Which was then followed by a lengthy discussion about why atoms are the smallest units of matter...and I honestly wasn't sure about how to count electrons and other particles...